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Subject: Re: Itanium support is back in GCC 15
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:11:07 -0500
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On 2/24/2025 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-02-24, Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 16:48:49 -0500
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> VMS x86-64 has a better C++ compiler than VMS Itanium.
>>
>> According to the benchmarks that you posted here several months (a
>> year?) ago, VMS x86-64 compilers are quite awful comparatively to
>> x86-64 compilers available on Windows/Linux/BSD.
> 
> Given all the various bits of movement in multiple areas over the last
> year or so, it might be time for those same tests to be run again against
> current compiler versions.

I have updated the VMS numbers with new compiler versions.

The traditional languages are still behind C++.

Arne